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SELF CLEANING WEED CUTTER. No. 399,337. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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SELF-CLEANING WEED-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Paten No. 399,337, dated March 12, 1889. Application filed April 16, 1888. Serial No. 270,880. (No model.)

In practice the colter A is secured to the To aZZ whom 2'2? may concern: l 3 5 Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. LUX, a l beam of a harrow or cultivator, or it may, if citizen of theUnited States, residing at Walla 1 preferred, be secured to a frame designed es- Walla, in the county of \Yalla Walla and 'lerpecially for that purpose. A number of cut- 5 ritory of Washington, have invented certain ters are secured to each frame, and they are new and useful Improvements in \Yeed-( utarranged in such relative positions that the 40 ters, of which the following is a specification. knives will not contact with each other while My invention relates to innirovements in their several paths of travel overlap, thusindevices for cutting weeds, which may be used suriug the cutting of all the weeds, and at the either as an attachment for barrows and cultisame time preventing the accumulation of the vators, or may be used in a frame designed weeds upon the cutters. 45 especially for the purpose. The frame carrying the cutters is drawn over The invention consists in certain novel feathe ground in the usual manner, the horizontures, hereinafter described and claimed. tal knives running under the surface, so as to In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is thoroughly cut up all the weeds.

a perspective View of myin'lprovedwced-cut- The device is very simple and its advan- 5o ter. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail perspective views tages are thought to be obvious. of the colter and the horizontal knife, respect- Having thus described my invention, what I ively. claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, Referring to the drawings by letter, A desis ignates a curved colter or cutter having the The improved weed-cutter consisting of the horizontal portion B and the vertical portion curved colter A, having the vertical portion C, and provided with a cutting edge upon C and the horizontal portion B, the front edge both of said portions. This colteris provided of the vertical portion and the lower edge of 2 5 atits upper end with a clamp, D, by means of the horizontal portion being both cuttingwhich it can be secured to the beam of a culedges, and the flat V-shaped horizontal knife tivator, and in the upper edge of its horizontal rigidly secured at its apex to the upper edge portion I provide a notch, E. of the horizontal portion of the colter at the F designates a V-shaped horizontal knife rear end of the same, as specified. 0 having its apex rigidly secured in the notch Y T T E of the colter, and having its arms orbranches FREDERICK extending outward and rearward tl'ierefrom, lVituesses: as shown. The front edge of this knife E is a R. G. PARKS, cutti11gedge,as shown JOHN A. TAYLOR. 

